Introduction: The People Problem-How a Growing Population Makes
Everything Harder, for Australia and the World
1. Welcome to the World of Exponential Growth
2. The Wide Brown Land has Finite Limits
3. Mouths to Feed-Will We Have Enough Food and Water or be Killed
Off First by Obesity?
4. Dying for a Drink
5. The Future is Blowin' in the Wind
6. Fewer Fish, Bigger People
7. People and Power-Population Increase and Dwindling Energy
Supplies
8. Preparing Ourselves for the Age of Scarcity-the N2N Path from
Natural Gas to Nuclear
9. Risky Business-Climate Change and Population Increase
10. Overshoot-Too Many People and Too Much Stuff
11. Our Addiction to Exponential Growth
12. The Search for Solutions-The Girl Effect
13. The Search for Solutions-Sharing the Wealth
14. The Search for Solutions-Curing the Growth Addiction
15. Summing It Up-The State of the World Today
Appendix: There is an Alternative to Runaway Population-Kelvin
Thomson's 14-point Plan for Population Reform
Acknowledgements
Notes
Dick Smith is one of Australia's most recognised individuals. A multi-millionaire philanthropist and adventurer, who originally made his fortune retailing electronics and then founded Australian Geographic magazine, Dick Smith has since become well known as a restless adventurer, making many pioneering and record breaking flights by helicopter, aeroplane and balloon.
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